Today's Lunar New Year's Day.
But her sister didn't want to talk about yesterday's Spring Festival Gala, I wanted to tell a story from 41 years ago.
At that time, Chinese mainland's "first TV series" had just been born.
Considering that domestic audiences have viewing needs and literary and artistic creation takes time, some TV stations choose to introduce TV drama works from other countries and regions to fill the gap in the market.
Source: Chinese mainland's first TV series "Eighteen Years of the Enemy Camp"
But one of the overseas hit dramas aired a few episodes, which attracted a round of scolding from domestic audiences -
"How did 'Journey to the West' come to be like this?"
The whole plot looks like no other.
For example, sun wukong shouted after becoming a bow horse wen to eat the skin egg;
For another example, when he met the Chang'e fairy on the road, he became a color heart, but the marshal of the canopy became a messenger to protect the flowers...
Source: Japanese version of "Journey to the West"
The audience was angry, and the literary department and the TV station began to think:
"Instead of letting others fool around, why don't you just shoot yourself?"
This shot produced a well-deserved "top stream of Chinese drama" - the 86th edition of "Journey to the West" (also known as the 82/88 edition).
How hot is it?
On this day in 1988 (February 1), the full episode of this version of "Journey to the West" was filmed and put on the TV screen.
At that time, 89.4% of the total viewership was already super-god, and the total viewership among the illiterate or illiterate people reached 100%.
Source: 82, 86, 88 editions, the old version of "Journey to the West" refers to it
It has been replayed more than 4,000 times on different television stations, but it is still often watched.
Some details, not known when I was young;
Some stories that I didn't understand when I was young;
There are some emotions that I don't want to forget to this day.
why?
The answer is all hidden in the long journey to the west.
It's hard inside and out of the play
From the beginning.
At the meeting at the end of 1981, when Hong Minsheng, then director of the Ministry of Literature and Art, spoke:
"Yang Jie, give you 'Journey to the West', do you dare to shoot it?"
Don't ask if you can, just talk about whether you dare to dare or not.
What's the difference?
At first glance, taking over "Journey to the West" is a glorious task, but in fact, this glory is also like a hot potato -
The classic four masterpieces, coupled with the audience's eager expectations and attention, must be filmed well at the beginning of filming.
Source: Journey to the West
At that time, Yang Jie stayed in the opera group of the Ministry of Literature and Art, but she wanted to be a TV series director.
She tried to shoot some works herself, but the content was not recognized, and she was ready to report and leave.
When she heard the leader's question at the meeting, she was both surprised and delighted, and almost blurted out:
"If you have money, you dare to shoot, what dare you?"
Source: Oral
Wait until the task really arrives in your hands, calm down, and start to build a group to prepare, only then do you really feel:
It turns out that both inside and outside the play are difficult.
First, the difficulty lies in the hardware.
Up and down the whole group, there is only one camera necessary for shooting, and there is no elevator.
If you want to rent or buy a new one, you can calculate other expenses during the shooting, and you can't squeeze out the extra spare money.
How tight is it?
One thing you may not know is that the 86th edition of "Journey to the West" was originally scheduled to shoot 30 episodes, but the drama was less than halfway through, and the money was already spent.
CCTV no longer invested money, it was the multi-eyed actor Li Hongchang who ran all over the units that could run, and only then did he difficulty pull a sum of money from the Eleventh Engineering Bureau of the Ministry of Railways.
But it is still not enough.
Director Yang Jie painfully cut 5 episodes before the filming of this version of "Journey to the West" was "completed".
Source: "Journey to the West : Wrong Falling Disc Silk Cave" Multi-Eyed Monster (Part 1)
List of end-of-credits co-recording units (Part 2)
Even harder, still in the "software".
"Dream of the Red Chamber", which is ready to start filming a year later, should talk about the rise and fall of several major families, show the grandeur of the Grand View Garden, and at least find scenes in classical Chinese gardens to shoot.
But "Journey to the West" is a divine and demonic novel, where people, immortals, and monsters are in full swing, and there are exorcism fighting methods...
You can't always keep the actors in a big house, don't see the clouds driving the fog, and do the martial arts action on the ground, so where is the shadow of the divine world?
I went looking for it again, and I heard that some crews in Hong Kong and Taiwan hoisted "Weiya" during filming.
Chase to learn, but the local crew treated it as a semi-confidential, a little to give a sentence or two, no one came to teach how to use it, can only quietly steal the teacher next to them.
When I returned to the Journey to the West crew, I filmed while groping.
At that time, the safety technology was not perfect, afraid of wearing the gang, the rope of hanging Wea could not be too thick, but the rope was thin, and people would fall down.
During the filming process, almost every one of the five masters and apprentices fell, stumbled, and touched.
In particular, the master brother, who needed to constantly lower demons and move rescue soldiers, fell from a height of nearly 3 meters for the first time.
In contrast, in order to select scenes for Journey to the West, he ran more than 20 provinces and regions across the country, and used an inch of keying in post-production in exchange for changes in character enlargement and reduction... It's already a little bit of a mill.
Director Yang Jie later wrote in the book:
"Things have changed so much now that I can't keep up with them. The changes in TV stunts are dazzling; the funds invested in TV series are thousands of yuan.
In the eyes of some people today, people of our time may be 'stupid hats'. ”
However, it is this group of "silly hats" who have traveled through the thousands of mountains and rivers of the motherland, spent 6 years, experienced the "ninety-nine eighty-one difficulties", and used a camera to shoot the heavenly court, the Buddha palace, the demon cave, and the human world;
It captures the magnificent world outlined by words and exists in the fantasies of countless readers, bringing generations of childhood to childhood.
Subtleties are "dare"
Such a difficult journey to the west has not only been filmed and filmed well.
Even now, behind the scenes, in front of the stage, the details can be carried out to hang a number of domestic dramas.
The most intuitive, styling.
Casually flip through today's domestic costume dramas, in the name of ancient costumes, but everywhere can not find "ancient" -
Exaggerated beauty pupils, familiar Korean flat eyebrows, plus the same color tone.
It seems that the technology has improved, and effort has been made (skin polishing), but the laborious piling still cannot hide the emptiness inside.
In contrast, "Journey to the West".
A paragraph from some time ago accurately summarized:
At that time, I only cared about watching the monkeys, and missed so many beautiful people.
Its beauty lies in the meticulousness of styling.
Teacher Wang Xizhong, who was in charge of styling, once joked that because of the lack of technology and funds at that time, it was necessary to distinguish the images of people, immortals and demons, and lacked modeling references, so he was often "blind".
It is said to be "blind", but there are also guidelines:
"You can't [appear in the shot] to be vulgar, dirty, and noisy. Whatever is fine, it must be beautiful, so don't be afraid to see any of them."
In the process, it is common to try, to adjust, to tear down and start over:
In the year when the reverse mold technology was not widely used, the glue of the sticky head cover was tried many times.
The occasional tulle, open-shoulder, and open-navel outfit is even more bold in that more conservative era.
It is also beautiful in the fineness of the shape.
Xian'e, who is also a peach picker, uses clothing color as a distinction is the basic operation, and the hair bun on the head and the hair ornament on the bun are also different.
You pull out the women of the three realms to see together, almost no one in the makeup and clothing is inappropriate, and no one is not beautiful.
Fairy, fresh and flexible.
Source: Chang'e Fairy in Journey to the West
Weird, charming and fierce.
Beauty on earth, dignified and elegant.
The styles are different, but they are not vulgar and highly recognizable.
Source: "Journey to the West" Tang Monk's mother throws a hydrangea ball
The subtlety of "Journey to the West" is not only in the shape, but also in the music.
Some netizens once counted the music part of "Journey to the West", and the composition column was almost full of a person's name - Xu Jingqing.
Image source: Network
How good the work is, almost no need for her sister to say more.
For example, in "Journey to the West Overture (Yungong Xunyin)", many viewers can automatically recall the sound in their minds even if they only look at the picture.
Source: The opening credits of "Journey to the West"
But many people don't know that Xu Jingqing is already the 8th composer the crew is looking for.
The music that was handed over to the crew before, or classical, or solemn, or atmospheric, can be listened to, good.
There is only one thing:
"Four flat and eight stable, which point do you say it is like Journey to the West?"
Source: The theme song of the "Journey to the West" pilot episode
As soon as Xu Jingqing's song came out, it was only a one-minute segment, and Yang Jie made a decision.
The use of soul-like electronic sound synthesizers was unique in that year, which was unique and eye-catching, and precisely reflected the unpredictable journey to the west world.
However, with the filming and broadcasting of "Journey to the West", this song has caused a lot of controversy in the music industry.
Why?
It's still because of the use of an electric synthesizer.
"It's too foreign, there is little folk music, there is no sense of the times, no sense of place." The traditional four masterpieces cannot use Western instruments, so the composition must be replaced."
After Yang Jie listened, she was anxious enough to let go of the harsh words:
"If Journey to the West makes me responsible, you will leave it alone." If you don't let me be responsible, then after I finish shooting, I will give it all to you. ”
Source: b station @ Journey to the West composer Xu Jingqing
Inside and outside, it is only for a pure and pure "Journey to the West".
Today's some ancient puppet fairy dramas, empty holding a big IP, it is difficult to see such courage and intentions.
Young people do not understand, the journey to the west has feelings
From the pilot broadcast in 1982 to the present, this version of "Journey to the West" has been popular for 40 years.
Someone asked director Yang Jie in an interview, why can "Journey to the West" be so popular?
She replied with only one sentence:
"TV series, one is a story and the other is love, this is not enough TV series is over."
Source: "Very Memories"
When I was young, I didn't understand it, I loved to watch demons exorcise demons, I loved to see dazzling spells, and I only knew that a few masters and apprentices had asked for Buddhas and sutras all the way...
When I look back, I realize that the word "love" is burned on almost every step of the way to learn the scriptures.
"Journey to the West" teaches the love of apprenticeship, brotherhood, and family conditions.
It also speaks of the love of children.
The most classic is the episode "Fun Sutra Daughter Country".
In the original work, the "daughter country" is not only not beautiful this time, but also somewhat naked and dark.
The adapted 86th edition of "Journey to the West" gets rid of the original simple Tang Monk's setting of only for the crossing of love.
Even if the Tang monks were to go to the Western Heavens to learn the scriptures, they were not wooden stones.
The king of the daughter kingdom invited him to visit the national treasure at night, and the Tang monk said on his lips, "The four Buddha-natures are empty, and the poor monks' dust is gone", but sweat has already oozed from his forehead.
The queen's words broke his heart:
You say that the four are empty
But his eyes were closed
If only you opened your eyes and looked at me
I don't believe your eyes are empty
It turned out that between the flow of his eyes, the seemingly firm saint monk also had waves in his heart.
"There is a lot of affection in the eyes, and every move is a kind intention."
But even so, the Tang monk, who had already made a vow, still cut off the love thread and rode to the west on a white horse in order to learn the great cause of the scriptures.
"Brother, don't you really like me?"
"I also made a vow in Chang'an, see the temple burning incense, see the pagoda sweeping the tower. If there is a fate in the next life..."
This is the deliberate intention of director Yang Jie during the adaptation.
Although the result is no different from the original, it is a successful pass.
But the creator behind the scenes said in an interview:
"What you want is a little bit of emotion, what you want is when two people look at each other, that moment."
And this seemingly inadvertent moment has achieved a classic BE aesthetic and has become an "unfinished human story" in the hearts of many viewers.
Twenty years later, many viewers will still be wet because of a sentence on the daughter's king program:
"It has been twenty years since the daughter's departure from the country, and the royal brother and brother are not harmed."
Source: "Art Life"
Without him, this moment became the finishing touch to give Tang Monk "humanity".
Tang monks, because of this, are monks, but also people.
And this level is a robbery, but also a fate.
Daughter Love Music: Li Lingyu
Compared with the original "Journey to the West" of the magnificent, witty, fantastic, romantic, crazy...
The 86th edition of "Journey to the West" has more humanity and warmth in this.
Similar adaptations, what impressed her sister was another -
At The Five Villages Of Mount Manju, Goku destroys the ginseng fruit tree.
The monkey who broke into the disaster was asked by Zhen Yuan Daxian to return within a time limit and heal Bao shu.
Goku, who has passed the level all the way, realizes that it is not difficult.
I went to the heavenly court and searched for the immortals, but found that the immortals could not do anything this time.
Riding up again, although there was a hundred and eighteen thousand miles, he did not know where to go.
In a daze, it landed in a mansion: Lingtai Square Inch Mountain, Oblique Moon Three Star Cave.
That was the place where he held up a raft more than five hundred years ago, crossed the ocean, and learned the Tao from Bodhidharma.
And now that I come back, I am already human.
He fell to his knees and called out to Master several times, but there was no echo.
Only to find that after parting that day, zushi did not see him again according to his words.
Goku was sluggish at the door for half a day, gradually bowing down and curled up on the ground.
Like a wounded child, he completely lost sight of the shadow of the Great Sage who was not afraid of heaven and earth.
After a period of silence, Zushi finally couldn't bear it and said, "Goku, do you know what's wrong?" ”
Then, it was still soft-hearted that pointed out a path for Goku to heal the tree.
This paragraph, which was not originally in the original work, was added by the Westward Journey crew when filming.
It is like a warm background preserved in the demon world, and it seems to remind us outside the play:
You see, the people in the play have gone through ninety-nine eighty-one difficulties and will eventually obtain the True Scriptures.
You see, outsiders have endured all kinds of hardships for the play, and have achieved a classic that has accompanied us through forty years.
Everything is irreversible, and you take these lights from the journey to the west and go to the ninety-nine eighty-one difficulties ahead.
No matter what the situation is, no matter what kind of thorns and fog are stepped into, as the song sings:
The road is at your feet. She published
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